DALETH
25 My soul clings to the dust;
Revive me according to Your word.
26 I have declared my ways, and You answered me;
Teach me Your statutes.
27 Make me understand the way of Your precepts;
So shall I meditate on Your wonderful works.
28 My soul melts from heaviness;
Strengthen me according to Your word.
29 Remove from me the way of lying,
And grant me Your law graciously.
30 I have chosen the way of truth;
Your judgments I have laid before me.
31 I cling to Your testimonies;
O Lord, do not put me to shame!
32 I will run the course of Your commandments,
For You shall enlarge my heart.
melt (v.28) = drops, weeps
The psalmist … is able to find encouragement and strength (v.28b: “strengthen me”; lit. “uphold me”) when confronted by temptation, imploring God, in His paternal grace, to remove that false way (i.e., the way of sin by which he is tempted) from before him (v.29). — Wechsler, page 283.
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[Cling] (v.31) is the same word [as in v.25]. Even when lying fainting and so cleaving to, the dust, the true servant of Jehovah kept cleaving to His testimonies. — Williams, page 391.
